c2p-cmd/Famous_Quotes · Datasets at Hugging Face

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11,140	26,722	I touch the future. I teach.	Christa McAuliffe	future
7,641	49,469	I'm so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies.	Ashley Tisdale	movies
9,020	1,036	The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.	Mason Cooley	alone
6,356	9,316	The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.	Hillary Clinton	change
7,778	54,415	I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.	Trevor Dunn	poetry
9,267	39,057	For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.	Audrey Hepburn	knowledge
10,612	12,836	I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.	Ricky Skaggs	dad
4,895	70,106	You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.	Saint Stephen	trust
10,444	12,942	The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.	Dean Norris	dad
10,986	54,061	In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.	Paul Dirac	poetry
6,837	49,355	Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.	Ron Fournier	movies
5,331	18,325	Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.	Colin Powell	failure
5,494	27,609	Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.	Maggie Q	future
10,994	56,757	I believe in delegating power.	Hillary Clinton	power
7,022	54,863	If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.	Louis D. Brandeis	politics
1,964	65,331	Applause waits on success.	Benjamin Franklin	success
10,861	42,015	The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.	Ben Stein	life
11,714	15,419	Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.	Kristi Yamaguchi	dreams
11,364	69,415	I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.	David Selby	travel
11,648	31,523	The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.	Lewis Thomas	great
6,060	66,863	I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.	Chad Hugo	teacher
10,794	13,322	Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.	Alice Walker	death
1,395	1,251	I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody I don't have to be a first to anybody.	Lena Horne	alone
8,897	21,419	A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.	Michael Bolton	famous
6,600	23,786	My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.	Flavor Flav	food
2,751	24,836	Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.	Chris Christie	freedom
5,800	30,059	When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.	Colin Powell	government
1,897	61,094	It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.	Lee Child	sad
10,690	63,234	There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.	Jacqueline Bisset	society
10,098	42,480	Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.	Steve Jobs	life
7,872	29,015	We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.	George Washington	good
6,987	26,817	A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.	Leonard Bernstein	future
6,758	51,441	For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.	Aristotle	nature
8,432	53,136	I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.	Martin Scorsese	peace
4,157	51,771	All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.	Sophocles	nature
7,145	6,710	My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.	Tiger Woods	best
3,802	40,621	No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	learning
9,113	1,330	To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.	William Osler	alone
2,637	66,560	I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.	A. C. Benson	teacher
405	25,147	Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.	Charles Maurice de Talleyrand	freedom
2,442	58,516	Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.	Thomas Jefferson	religion
11,738	23,040	For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just a tool I utilized to help people improve their confidence. For me, it's never been about fitness. It's always been about helping to empower people.	Jillian Michaels	fitness
11,409	33,520	City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.	L. Neil Smith	health
365	27,173	The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.	Martin Heidegger	future
3,774	21,103	Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.	Chris Rock	famous
2,745	48,075	Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.	John Grisham	money
5,275	74,989	Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.	Maria Bartiromo	work
3,829	10,515	I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.	Cliff Stearns	computers
6,065	54,822	Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.	Ambrose Bierce	politics
8,853	65,572	I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.	Jack Welch	success
5,493	2,787	I really enjoyed being Peppy Miller. She was an amazing character and her energy followed me everywhere. When I talk about her I want to be her again.	Berenice Bejo	amazing
4,914	13,628	Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.	Omar N. Bradley	death
10,119	69,243	I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.	David Attenborough	travel
10,970	66,350	There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.	Les Aspin	sympathy
8,030	23,549	You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.	Mariska Hargitay	food
6,639	40,784	You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.	Tori Amos	learning
7,714	22,396	God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.	Ruby Dee	fear
34	1,395	I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.	Golda Meir	alone
1,448	31,234	Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.	Gilbert K. Chesterton	great
736	28,007	Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.	Thomas Paine	god
82	50,572	Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.	Avril Lavigne	music
5,249	1,541	If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.	V. S. Naipaul	alone
3,328	5,800	I really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise.	Dita Von Teese	beauty
10,073	33,772	To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.	Hans Rosling	health
7,467	40,249	I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.	Michelle Bachelet	leadership
8,233	54,737	Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.	Vanessa Redgrave	poetry
7,954	44,537	My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.	Candace Bushnell	marriage
10,019	61,258	My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.	Jonathan Winters	sad
4,993	39,785	The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.	Doris Day	knowledge
10,181	68,939	I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.	Jack Nicholson	time
7,636	50,619	I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.	Daniel Radcliffe	music
680	6,609	He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.	Harry Emerson Fosdick	best
3,623	69,374	My ideal travel companions are my family.	Pharrell Williams	travel
8,385	67,710	I'm going to be in technology for a long time.	Eric Lefkofsky	technology
862	43,359	There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.	Friedrich Nietzsche	love
8,959	36,929	A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.	Courteney Cox	humor
9,761	47,225	Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.	Alfred Marshall	money
11,609	43,714	We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.	Alanis Morissette	love
9,132	8,588	I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.	Sheena Easton	car
2,842	13,868	The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.	Suzanne Fields	death
8,439	50,967	So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.	Smokey Robinson	music
9,477	41,175	Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.	Mark Kennedy	learning
9,943	42,954	Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.	Vincent Van Gogh	love
6,101	51,011	I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.	Ani DiFranco	music
6,448	43,533	If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.	Julia Roberts	love
5,095	34,221	Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.	Erica Jong	history
1,947	48,152	In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	morning
5,401	37,907	Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.	Tycho Brahe	imagination
1,654	54,099	When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.	Denis Diderot	poetry
715	1,423	Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.	David Hume	alone
5,330	21,537	I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.	Edgar Winter	famous
2,740	20,957	Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.	Curt Schilling	family
249	25,124	If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.	Mario Monti	freedom
7,475	9,126	Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.	Irene Peter	change
7,010	69,827	Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.	D. Elton Trueblood	trust
455	66,829	Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.	Bjarne Stroustrup	teacher
8,034	16,618	A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.	David Horowitz	education
4,738	16,068	I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.	Michelle Obama	education
5,303	4,729	Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.	Jiddu Krishnamurti	attitude
3,873	5,090	I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all.	Jennifer Sky	attitude

11,140

26,722

I touch the future. I teach.

Christa McAuliffe

future

7,641

49,469

I'm so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies.

Ashley Tisdale

movies

9,020

1,036

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

Mason Cooley

alone

6,356

9,316

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

Hillary Clinton

change

7,778

54,415

I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.

Trevor Dunn

poetry

9,267

39,057

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Audrey Hepburn

knowledge

10,612

12,836

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

Ricky Skaggs

dad

4,895

70,106

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

Saint Stephen

trust

10,444

12,942

The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.

Dean Norris

dad

10,986

54,061

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Paul Dirac

poetry

6,837

49,355

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.

Ron Fournier

movies

5,331

18,325

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell

failure

5,494

27,609

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

Maggie Q

future

10,994

56,757

I believe in delegating power.

Hillary Clinton

power

7,022

54,863

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Louis D. Brandeis

politics

1,964

65,331

Applause waits on success.

Benjamin Franklin

success

10,861

42,015

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Ben Stein

life

11,714

15,419

Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.

Kristi Yamaguchi

dreams

11,364

69,415

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

David Selby

travel

11,648

31,523

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

Lewis Thomas

great

6,060

66,863

I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.

Chad Hugo

teacher

10,794

13,322

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walker

death

1,395

1,251

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody I don't have to be a first to anybody.

Lena Horne

alone

8,897

21,419

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.

Michael Bolton

famous

6,600

23,786

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

Flavor Flav

food

2,751

24,836

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.

Chris Christie

freedom

5,800

30,059

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.

Colin Powell

government

1,897

61,094

It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.

Lee Child

sad

10,690

63,234

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

Jacqueline Bisset

society

10,098

42,480

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Steve Jobs

life

7,872

29,015

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

George Washington

good

6,987

26,817

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Leonard Bernstein

future

6,758

51,441

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Aristotle

nature

8,432

53,136

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

Martin Scorsese

peace

4,157

51,771

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Sophocles

nature

7,145

6,710

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

Tiger Woods

best

3,802

40,621

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

learning

9,113

1,330

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

William Osler

alone

2,637

66,560

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

A. C. Benson

teacher

405

25,147

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

freedom

2,442

58,516

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

Thomas Jefferson

religion

11,738

23,040

For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just a tool I utilized to help people improve their confidence. For me, it's never been about fitness. It's always been about helping to empower people.

Jillian Michaels

fitness

11,409

33,520

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

L. Neil Smith

health

365

27,173

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

Martin Heidegger

future

3,774

21,103

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.

Chris Rock

famous

2,745

48,075

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.

John Grisham

money

5,275

74,989

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

Maria Bartiromo

work

3,829

10,515

I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.

Cliff Stearns

computers

6,065

54,822

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Ambrose Bierce

politics

8,853

65,572

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Jack Welch

success

5,493

2,787

I really enjoyed being Peppy Miller. She was an amazing character and her energy followed me everywhere. When I talk about her I want to be her again.

Berenice Bejo

amazing

4,914

13,628

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Omar N. Bradley

death

10,119

69,243

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

David Attenborough

travel

10,970

66,350

There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.

Les Aspin

sympathy

8,030

23,549

You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.

Mariska Hargitay

food

6,639

40,784

You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

Tori Amos

learning

7,714

22,396

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

Ruby Dee

fear

34

1,395

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

Golda Meir

alone

1,448

31,234

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

great

736

28,007

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

god

82

50,572

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

Avril Lavigne

music

5,249

1,541

If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

V. S. Naipaul

alone

3,328

5,800

I really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise.

Dita Von Teese

beauty

10,073

33,772

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

Hans Rosling

health

7,467

40,249

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

Michelle Bachelet

leadership

8,233

54,737

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

Vanessa Redgrave

poetry

7,954

44,537

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

Candace Bushnell

marriage

10,019

61,258

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

Jonathan Winters

sad

4,993

39,785

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Doris Day

knowledge

10,181

68,939

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Jack Nicholson

time

7,636

50,619

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.

Daniel Radcliffe

music

680

6,609

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

best

3,623

69,374

My ideal travel companions are my family.

Pharrell Williams

travel

8,385

67,710

I'm going to be in technology for a long time.

Eric Lefkofsky

technology

862

43,359

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

love

8,959

36,929

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

Courteney Cox

humor

9,761

47,225

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Alfred Marshall

money

11,609

43,714

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

Alanis Morissette

love

9,132

8,588

I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.

Sheena Easton

car

2,842

13,868

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

Suzanne Fields

death

8,439

50,967

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

Smokey Robinson

music

9,477

41,175

Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.

Mark Kennedy

learning

9,943

42,954

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Vincent Van Gogh

love

6,101

51,011

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

Ani DiFranco

music

6,448

43,533

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

Julia Roberts

love

5,095

34,221

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Erica Jong

history

1,947

48,152

In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

morning

5,401

37,907

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

Tycho Brahe

imagination

1,654

54,099

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Denis Diderot

poetry

715

1,423

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

David Hume

alone

5,330

21,537

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

Edgar Winter

famous

2,740

20,957

Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.

Curt Schilling

family

249

25,124

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.

Mario Monti

freedom

7,475

9,126

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

Irene Peter

change

7,010

69,827

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

D. Elton Trueblood

trust

455

66,829

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

Bjarne Stroustrup

teacher

8,034

16,618

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

David Horowitz

education

4,738

16,068

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Michelle Obama

education

5,303

4,729

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

attitude

3,873

5,090

I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all.

Jennifer Sky

attitude